It's hard to buy SW for me because I hunt and shop myself. It's nice for me to just get money. You can be assured I'll spend it on Star Wars. :D

JabbaJohn: do you have a gift list? Do you purposely NOT buy things you put on your gift list? (like so you don't end up with duplicates of say Milakali?)

I think you got a wonderful haul.

Maybe I'll put YOUR parents on my gift list :D

12-02-2009

Mr. JabbaJohnL

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Originally Posted by Tycho

It's hard to buy SW for me because I hunt and shop myself. It's nice for me to just get money. You can be assured I'll spend it on Star Wars. :D

JabbaJohn: do you have a gift list? Do you purposely NOT buy things you put on your gift list? (like so you don't end up with duplicates of say Milakali?)

I think you got a wonderful haul.

Maybe I'll put YOUR parents on my gift list :D

Well, when I do make birthday or Christmas lists, I generally just write "Star Wars figures" and "Star Wars vehicles" and my mom will look at the other list. If I want something specific right at that time (like the Y-wing), I'll be sure to put that on there as well. Non-SW stuff goes on the gift lists as well.

I rarely end up with duplicates, but that did recently happen with the Coleman Trebor/Jango Fett set, since I found one at Target the same day my mom got another, but she didn't tell me as it was going to be a present. A few weeks ago, I bought quite a lot since I knew she didn't have any of it yet, then told her which items to check off on the list. But we can always return stuff if there are duplicates. Another little anecdote - I found two battle packs when I was at Target with her and my sisters a few days ago, and I bought one (Battle for Endor) and she bought one for Christmas (Gelagrub Patrol). She likes for there to be some surprises, but the duplicates issue makes that difficult sometimes.

And thanks, yeah, it was quite a nice haul, not just in terms of quantity but quality. Most of the ROTJ wave is superb. For instance, I thought for sure Giran didn't have articulated knees or ankles, but they're just hidden so well that it really took me by surprise. I'm now back at the dorms for the last few days of class and then finals, but I really want to be able to look at and fiddle with this stuff soon.

12-03-2009

JimJamBonds

Happy birthday Mr. JJL.

12-09-2009

figrin bran

That haul is most impressive!

Happy belated birthday JJL!

12-01-2010

TeeEye7

Happy Totally Official Adulthood Recognized In All Corners Of The Land Birthday, Sir!